*** Call for Papers -- IJSWIS Special Issue on Stream Reasoning ***
The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems seeks
contributions to a Special Issue on Stream reasoning.
Editors: Emanuele Della Valle, Stefano Ceri, Frank van Harmelen
= Introduction =
We live in a “streaming world”. For an increasing number of modern Web
applications, ranging from sensor networks to social media analysis, the
assumption that the world is only evolving slowly no longer holds. The
time has arrived for the Semantic Web community to pick up the work done
on stream and complex event processing in the data base community. This
special issue seeks to build upon a call in [1] to start investigating
the abstractions, foundations, methods, and tools for Stream Reasoning –
reasoning upon rapidly changing information. Several independent
groups have picked up the agenda set in [1]. Several different forms of
deductive and inductive Stream Reasoning have been investigated. The
foundations have been established for reasoning “on the fly” on data
streams while they pass by. Alternative abstractions for representing
and querying semantic stream arose. The exploitation of the temporal
order of data streams has been recognizing as a key optimization method
for reasoning on streams. Parallelization and distribution techniques
for Stream Reasoning have recently received also the attention they
deserve. This IJSWIS special issue on Stream Reasoning aims at
presenting new theory and and showcasing technical innovation for
Semantic Web technologies that can process heterogeneous data streams in
a knowledge-intensive environment. We solicit high quality, original
research contributions on all aspects of Stream Reasoning, including but
not limited to the following topics of interest, in order to capture the
state of the art and to stimulate further developments in this and
related areas.
= Topics of Interests =
• Theory
◦ Formalization of Stream Reasoning
◦ Notions of soundness and completeness
◦ Abstractions for modelling semantic streams
◦ Query languages for semantic streams (syntax and semantics)
• Stream Reasoning methods
◦ Incremental updates of deductive and inductive materializations
◦ Query rewriting techniques for ontology-base access to
heterogeneous streams
◦ Combining semantic streams with massive data collections
◦ Inductive materialization of incomplete and noisy streams
◦ Usage and evolution of semantic models while processing data streams
• Distribution and parallelization of Stream Reasoning
◦ Scalability and high throughput issues
◦ Distribution techniques and load balancing
• Stream reasoning engineering
◦ Protocols for interconnecting distributed stream reasoners
◦ Interoperability of stream reasoners
◦ Reliability and adaptability
◦ Benchmarks
• Applications of stream reasoning
◦ Sensor Networks
◦ Social Media
◦ Situation awareness
= Submissions Process =
Please submit abstracts and papers at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijswissr2012. After
submitting the paper, please also inform the guest editors by email,
indicating the paper ID assigned by the submission system. Papers must
be of high quality and should clearly state the technical issue(s) being
addressed as related to Stream Reasoning. Research papers should present
a proof of concept for any novel technique they are proposing. Wherever
possible, submissions should demonstrate the contribution of the
research by reporting on a systematic evaluation of the work. If a
submission is based on a prior publication in a workshop or conference,
the journal submission must involve substantial advance (a minimum of
30%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition (e.g., more
comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional
applications/usage). If this applies to your submission, please
explicitly mention relevant previous publications along with the value
addition in the extended manuscript being submitted. All papers must be
submitted by June 15, 2012. The recommended length of submitted papers
is around 8,000 words (Editors may allow longer papers if necessary).
All papers are subject to peer review performed by at least three
established researchers drawn from a panel of experts selected for this
special issue. Accepted papers will undergo for a second cycle of
revision and reviewer feedback. Please submit manuscripts as a PDF file
using the online submission system. IJSWIS is the first Semantic Web
journal to be included in the Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) citation
index, is one of the highly cited journals in WWW (http://bit.ly/www-j1)
and is included in all major indices; see http://www.ijswis.org.
= Important Dates =
• Abstract Submission: 30th September 2012
• Submission Deadline: 31th October 2012
• Notifications: 15st December 2012
• Camera-ready papers due: 1st February 2012
• Publication: First quarter of 2013